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Geometry Wars Reshapes The Past

Posted by Zonk on from the more-than-meets-the-eye dept.

Eurogamer has a piece looking at the sucess of Geometry Wars, despite its old-skool flavour. From the article: "Eyes around The Beehive widen and brows furrow in incredulity. I'm suddenly instructed to tell everyone at the table what I've just said to one half. I clear my throat. 'The worldwide high score for Geometry Wars is 12.8 million.' Nobody says anything. Everyone just thinks about it. 'Terrifying,' says someone, eventually. 'Mine's 2.1 million, which I originally thought was pretty good,' says Stephen Cakebread, creator of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and its predecessor, 'but I've since been put to shame by all the people who've scored five times that!' Well, six times, but we're not counting. It's too painful."

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  1. Cool by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It looks like a cross between asteroids and a winamp visualization.

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  2. PC Version? by Stachybotris · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any chance of this becoming available on the PC? Even as a (shudder) flash-based web game?